Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 12
Written in modern English
The king records that he deposited his commemorative inscriptions in the structure. He calls on any future ruler who renovates the facing — whether it has fallen into disrepair or been damaged by flooding — to restore the deteriorated sections and return his inscribed name and commemorative inscriptions to their proper places. The left edge of the tablet carries signs that cannot be translated.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(r 1') Moreover, [I deposited] my commemorative inscriptions (therein). (r 2') [May] a future ruler, when he renovates that facing (when) it becomes dilapidated or (when he repairs it when) it is eroded by flood(s), renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) [return my] inscribed [name] and my commemorative inscriptions [to their places]. (l.e. 1') (No translation possible.)
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
ù na-re-ia [aš-ku-un] / ru-bu-ú ar-[ku-ú] / e-nu-ma ki-si-ir-tu ši-i e-na-⸢ḫu⸣-[ma] / ú-ud-da-šu ù lu-ú mi?-lu? / ⸢i⸣-tab-ba-lu-ši an-⸢ḫu⸣-sa ⸢lu⸣-di-iš / [šu-mì ša]-⸢aṭ?⸣-ra? ù na-re-ia / [...] x [...] / [...] x [...] / [...] x ḫi ḫi x [...] / [...] ⸢ma⸣-al-ku [...] / [...] it-ti x [...] / [...] ù u₄-⸢mu⸣ [...] / [...] x gi? x [...] / [...] x i-na [...] / [...] x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005749.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005749/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005749/.
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